The ‘unfathomable’ fall of Labour’s Greater Manchester
‘We went to the polling stations and people weren’t looking us in the eye, and we could tell something was wrong’
Lucy McLaughlin
Lucy is an investigative reporter who cut her teeth in student journalism. She was previously an editor at The Tab, managing local teams across the UK.
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